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i always love when you come on the show. rachel maddow, everybody. we're going to make some cocktails when we come back. come on back! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ i wanna see you in the morning ♪ ♪ i wanna see you when the breaking day is dawning ♪ ♪ you gotta go, you gotta go, it's alright ♪ ♪ and when i get the same reaction ♪ ♪ i knothis time it's gonna give some satisfaction ♪ ♪ you gotta go, you gotta go hi. i'm dan hesse, ceo of sprint. the other day, i looked up the word "unlimited" in the dictionary. nowhere in the definition did i see words like... "metering," "overage," or "throttling"... which is code for slowing you down. only sprint gives you true unlimited calling, texting... surfing, tv, and navigation on all phones. why limit yourself? [ male announcer ] sprint. the only national carrier to give you true unlimited. find out more at sprint.com. trouble hearing on the phone? visit sprintrelay.com. [ male announcer ] sprint. the only national carrier to give you true unlimited. you know, each year, olive garden se
i always love when you come on the show. rachel maddow, everybody. we're going to make some cocktails when we come back. come on back! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ i wanna see you in the morning ♪ ♪ i wanna see you when the breaking day is dawning ♪ ♪ you gotta go, you gotta go, it's alright ♪ ♪ and when i get the same reaction ♪ ♪ i knothis time it's gonna give some satisfaction ♪ ♪ you gotta go, you gotta go hi. i'm dan hesse, ceo of sprint. the other day, i looked up...
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maddow show," she asked tax expert david k. johnson if there's evidence to support claims that the bush-era tax cuts have helped the economy. >> you know, it's been ten years since we started with the bush cuts, 30 years since reagan. but ten years. what's happened? the median and average wage in this country in 2010 was smaller than it was in 2000. corporate tax revenues are down more than 1/3 even though profits are up 60%. individual income tax revenues are down 30%. what's going on here is very clear -- we have a policy that does not work. how long do we have to let it go? do we have to totally break the country before we recognize this policy didn't work? george bush said, you know, elect me, i will cut taxes, you will all become prosperous. he was clear everyone -- and he never wavered from that message. he didn't say, oh, it's -- beyond my control. he stuck to that message. well, it's not working. and a lot of us predicted it wouldn't work. there are a lot of people who wrote papers explaining why it wouldn't work. and w
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"the rachel maddow show" is up next. >>> good evening, lawrence. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we have news ahead on libya where things today did not go the way you might have expected them to go, given the president's speech last night. we've got a heads up on something important happening at the united states supreme court. our newsroom name for it on the staff, sons of citizens united. it is not getting national attention yet, we find it spooky. we also have the wisconsin secretary of state on tonight for the interview, because the union stripping thing in wisconsin we keep hearing is over is not only not over, it is dissolving into chaos at this point. that is coming up in the course of this next hour. >>> but we start tonight with conservatism. what the word conservative means in america now. the choice, the conservative movement, and the republican party have to make between being authoritarian conservatives or libertarian conservatives. do american conservatives favor big, intrusive government, or do they favor small, leave
"the rachel maddow show" is up next. >>> good evening, lawrence. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we have news ahead on libya where things today did not go the way you might have expected them to go, given the president's speech last night. we've got a heads up on something important happening at the united states supreme court. our newsroom name for it on the staff, sons of citizens united. it is not getting national attention yet, we find it spooky. we also...
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thanks for being on "the rachel maddow show." thanks to you, too, sir. >> thank you, rachel. >> it is not every day that the politics of individual little towns like rice lake, wisconsin, individual states like wisconsin are truly national stories. the daily doings of the metropolitan sewer district in any town usa are important to any town usa, but not usually everybody else. tonight, it is not just wisconsin, it is texas where your gob will be smacked. it is south dakota where small time conservatives are building the biggest government in history. and wyoming, the most republican government in history, where there is an outbreak of conservativism surprising some republicans. this is an amazing friday night in the news. please stay with us. when you pour chunky beef with country vegetable soup over it, you can do dinner. 4 minutes, around 4 bucks. campbell's chunky. it's amazing what soup can do.™ having the right real estportant than ever.de he rightis more important than . at remax.com, you can find the experts you need, wh
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i'm thrilled to be joined by rachel maddow of the rachel maddow show" on msnbc weeknights. welcome to the show. >> thanks. >> in the immortal words of margaret thatcher, scott walker is not for turning. where is this headed? >> it seems to be headed toward a sort of swift and sure end. i have to say. i don't think this can go on indefinitely. the governor set himself up to either win this outright or lose this outright when he said he would not negotiate, he would not budge. he said on a prank phone call when he thought he was addressing david coach when he was draeing a journalist, he said even if he could trick democrats to coming back to the state capitol, he would not negotiate with them. once you have set that out you will not negotiate and talk it out, you will not have any discussions that have any -- that take any path toward ending it, you're setting yourself up to win it or lose it outright. i think he's heading toward losing it outright. the republicans' tactics are getting more desperate. we got a copy of the new senate resolution by which the republicans are go
i'm thrilled to be joined by rachel maddow of the rachel maddow show" on msnbc weeknights. welcome to the show. >> thanks. >> in the immortal words of margaret thatcher, scott walker is not for turning. where is this headed? >> it seems to be headed toward a sort of swift and sure end. i have to say. i don't think this can go on indefinitely. the governor set himself up to either win this outright or lose this outright when he said he would not negotiate, he would not...
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taxpayers and u.s. funds u.s. support whether concerns about libya right now as we go in and you start arming the rebels who are the rebels they're not an organized army it's a collection of everybody who it's good are very rude so robbie's what are our views and others who might present a serious threat so this is something as to be approached very very cautiously and i think we are seeing a great deal of caution on this if this was simple and we knew exactly who the other side was i don't think that would be this debate that we're seeing so i think we are moving cautiously and there's this new russia slate tell me how is it conscious if we say that we don't even know who these rebels are so we again we don't know who we might be arming who we might be helping we've already established that we clearly are picking sides here in this civil conflict how is that conscious i feel like that but you had so much more risk for the future and more stuff we eat is who's the american head of nato command has been in front of
taxpayers and u.s. funds u.s. support whether concerns about libya right now as we go in and you start arming the rebels who are the rebels they're not an organized army it's a collection of everybody who it's good are very rude so robbie's what are our views and others who might present a serious threat so this is something as to be approached very very cautiously and i think we are seeing a great deal of caution on this if this was simple and we knew exactly who the other side was i don't...
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s rachel maddow and they say that it's just an investigation to see what labor studies professors are saying about was constance union battle but is it really more of an intimidation campaign a return to the dark days of mccarthyism joining me to discuss it is dr merritt masters director of the labor studies program at wayne state university and one of the professors who's e-mails are being targeted dr masters thank you so much for joining us tonight now like i said you're just one of many of professors who are being targeted here and they're saying that they does want to see what you guys are saying what you're talking about when it comes to this labor battle but how do you see it. well i presume they want to improve my email certs skills and my own those skills but the fact of the matter is they're trying to find out if we at wayne state and university of michigan and michigan state university systematically attempted to facilitate in orchestrate the protests become michigan i mean in wisconsin the reality is it's bad and that is not the case i've been far too busy with other things
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"the rachel maddow show" up next. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, lawrence. >>> thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. this right here? this is not a pipe. that's what it says there. this is not a pipe. and this over here? this is not about unions. got it? this is not a pipe, and this is not at all about stripping unions. governor scott walker of wisconsin got all crazy modern art on everyone today when he gave his by enyal budget address at the state capitol. an address for which he had to lockdown the capitol building and keep out thousands of protesters. you never would have known it from governor walker's speak. from his this is not a pipe of performance at that speech. for 15 days, wisconsinites by tens of thousands have been up in arms in protest against their governor's attempt to strip that state's union. looks like governor walker dramatically miscalculated when he picked this fight. also looks like the national republican party under the leadership of the guy that used to be stat
"the rachel maddow show" up next. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, lawrence. >>> thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. this right here? this is not a pipe. that's what it says there. this is not a pipe. and this over here? this is not about unions. got it? this is not a pipe, and this is not at all about stripping unions. governor scott walker of wisconsin got all crazy modern art on everyone today when he gave his by enyal budget address at...
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case, they mean me, this show. the right wing group that is demanding any e-mails that include references to me or the show, called the mackinac center, funded by secret donations, in that they don't disclose names of individuals or corporations that give them money, but they are well funded and we know through tax records about donations to them by the charitable foundations of a lot of billionaires and corporations frankly. mother jones did a nice piece explaining who these guys are, what we know about their funding from foundations like the one run by charles koch, of koch brothers fame. also the walton foundation, the walton family that runs walmart. edgar and elsa prince foundation, you remember them from black water fame. all those foundations fund the mackinac center. they wrote what looks to be the basis of that financial, martial law policy in michigan, michigan republican governor rick snyder. this show was the first national news outlet to report in detail on that policy. now the mackinac center is deman
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"the rachel maddow show" is up next. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, lawrence. thank you for that. >>> thanks to you at home for staying with us this hour. we will be joined live from libya in a moment by nbc's richard engel, doing amazing reporting from the war zone there. are we allowed to call it a war zone? let's call it a war zone, while interviewing rebels on the frontlines in libya earlier today. richard and his crew found themselves on the wrong side of what i think was an artillery barrage. that is to say they were not far from it and covering from a safe distance, they were in the middle of it. richard and his crew are fine. we will have that amazing footage for you in a moment and richard will join us live. but put yourself in richard engel's shoes for a moment. if you had the job of being nbc's chief foreign correspondent, and say like him you speak arabic, your special area of expertise is the middle east, it's hard to imagine at this point when you get to come home, isn't it? i mean, the upring in tunesia that ban four nt ago, ntinue trkoetswl yeme
"the rachel maddow show" is up next. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, lawrence. thank you for that. >>> thanks to you at home for staying with us this hour. we will be joined live from libya in a moment by nbc's richard engel, doing amazing reporting from the war zone there. are we allowed to call it a war zone? let's call it a war zone, while interviewing rebels on the frontlines in libya earlier today. richard and his crew found themselves on the wrong side of...
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the rachel maddow show is up next. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, lawrence. thank you. and thanks to you at home for staying with us this hour. there is breaking news tonight out of washington, dc, as the reuters news agency reports, from what they say are four separate government sources that president obama has authorized covert operations inside libya to help the rebels there. quoting reuters -- indeed the "new york times" then reports tonight that -- now does this mean that the cia is in libya as a pseudo-military force to topple gaddafi the way the cia participated as a pseudo-military force in toppling the taliban and afghanistan back in 2001? "t tesgo o oitwa i rorngonhto y no. first in afghanistan, the cia worked with u.s. military forces on the ground in afghanistan. in libya, the u.s. is still ruling out ground troops. so far in libya, the u.s. is not saying we are doing that. the u.s. is not saying we are arming the rebels, but as i understand it, this presidential finding if it has happened would be the kind of instrument that president obama would use to au
the rachel maddow show is up next. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, lawrence. thank you. and thanks to you at home for staying with us this hour. there is breaking news tonight out of washington, dc, as the reuters news agency reports, from what they say are four separate government sources that president obama has authorized covert operations inside libya to help the rebels there. quoting reuters -- indeed the "new york times" then reports tonight that -- now does this...
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"the rachel maddow show" is up next. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, lawrence. thank you. and thanks to you at home for staying with us. for the next hour there is a ton going on in the world and in the news today. a ton to get to this hour, including the announcement about the war in libya that the obama administration had been promising from the beginning but that many people doubted we would ever hear. we heard it tonight. nato announcing that they will take over the no-fly zone command and control zone responsibilities in libya from the u.s. military. that announcement confirmed by secretary of state hillary clinton in washington tonight. we will have more detail on that coming up in tonight's show, including what this means for the fast-heating-up american politics about this war. that is all coming up. but we begin tonight with an exclusive report. this is something we have been working on for some time. you will not see this anywhere else. all right. do you have an air bag in your car? depending on the age of your car, you probably do. you probably have lots of air
"the rachel maddow show" is up next. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, lawrence. thank you. and thanks to you at home for staying with us. for the next hour there is a ton going on in the world and in the news today. a ton to get to this hour, including the announcement about the war in libya that the obama administration had been promising from the beginning but that many people doubted we would ever hear. we heard it tonight. nato announcing that they will take over the...
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"the rachel maddow show" is up next with why an economist who advised republicans in the last election now says the gop's budget plan would cause huge job losses. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, thank you very much for that. and thanks to you at home for staying with us the next hour. if you are a person that uses e-mail, you have probably received an e-mail about winning millions of dollars. all you have to do to claim these millions of dollars is to wire the author of the e-mail a large sum of money. you've had one of these, right? wire the person a few hundred bucks and your millions will be on the way very soon. these e-mails often arrive from a sender claiming to be like a nigerian prince or something. the nigerian prince e-mail scam thing is not only one of the greatest things to come out of the e-mail age, it set the standard for the whole frantic disjointed i need your money right now e-mail genre. as of today, it has a new addition from the world of politics. as i write you now, the fat cat labor bosses are busy scrapping, scrapping? they say scrapping together millions
"the rachel maddow show" is up next with why an economist who advised republicans in the last election now says the gop's budget plan would cause huge job losses. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, thank you very much for that. and thanks to you at home for staying with us the next hour. if you are a person that uses e-mail, you have probably received an e-mail about winning millions of dollars. all you have to do to claim these millions of dollars is to wire the author of...
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last night on "the rachel mad dough" show she asked gid yan rose for possible scenarios about how the situation in libya could play out. >> essentially at this point, there are only three options. either we climb down from our goals, and let gadhafi come back and take over, which we're not going to do because it would be humiliating, devastating and violate the reason we went in in the first place. or we essentially achieved the stated initial mission, which is to protect the rebel areas in the eastern part of the country. but not go for regime change. regime change doesn't occur on its own. in which case we have a pro tracted stalemate, de facto partition of the country which gets interesting and harry over a long period of time. or whether the local forces can do it or whether we or allies escalate essentially you get gadhafi ousted and then you have something else. so, either it goes backward, stays exactly where we are now or it goes forward. >> each night rachel maddow takes on the biggest stories of the day with in-depth analysis and guests from all sides of the issues. don't mi
last night on "the rachel mad dough" show she asked gid yan rose for possible scenarios about how the situation in libya could play out. >> essentially at this point, there are only three options. either we climb down from our goals, and let gadhafi come back and take over, which we're not going to do because it would be humiliating, devastating and violate the reason we went in in the first place. or we essentially achieved the stated initial mission, which is to protect the...
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appreciate the insight. >>> rachel maddow will take a closer look at theç reactors tonight again, 9:00 eastern right here on msnbc. >>> house speaker john boehner's responding to the growing concern over nuclear energy sparked by the crisis in japan. and here's what he said on capitol hill just this morning. >> let's understand what safeguards, if any, additional safeguards need to be put in place. but let's not just say, like we have for the last 30 years, we're not even going to look at it because we're afraid of it. >> the international atomic energy agency now says the seriousness of the japan disaster rates six on a scale of seven. but if things continue to deteriorate, we could see this become a level seven accident, the same as the 1986 chernobyl blast which was the worst nuclear accident in history. nbc's michelle kosinski is in ukraine near the chernobyl site. >> reporter: chernobyl was the worst nuclear accident in history, an uncontained explosion 25 years ago next month. and to this day, there's this 20-mile radius exclusion zone around it. need special clearance around i
appreciate the insight. >>> rachel maddow will take a closer look at theç reactors tonight again, 9:00 eastern right here on msnbc. >>> house speaker john boehner's responding to the growing concern over nuclear energy sparked by the crisis in japan. and here's what he said on capitol hill just this morning. >> let's understand what safeguards, if any, additional safeguards need to be put in place. but let's not just say, like we have for the last 30 years, we're not...
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maddow show us and we see michael moore was on and he had this to say to the banks take a look at this i'd like to anybody who works on wall street a.b.a. works for the base just a good thing to look at this ok because this is what this is what's coming is what's coming for you because the people are going to take it anymore but people are going to demand justice they're going to me and they're going to be if your ass is in jail you've taken our money we want the money they're taking our jobs overseas we want those jobs back those are natural resource those are not yours to do with as you please they affect all of us as a society we have a right to those jobs we have a right to that money that used to be that belong to the people of this country john i'm guessing that most americans agree with that some why are presidents obama and why did president bush not do what president reagan did when he put two thousand banks are in jail in one thousand nine hundred six when the s n l's imploded will come but you had a good conversation a couple weeks ago with my colleague ryan about the compet
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the best monitor graphic in the history of the "rachel maddow show" it blinks. and the entrepreneur award of the year. this is a catch of paying $5,000 in order to collect it. the reason this one came to light is because one of the people he blast faxed this scam to is the very nice and friendly order of a dallas strip club called the lodge. apparently newt gingrich had not noticed in the very careful process of selecting his award-winning entrepreneurs of the year a process so careful and scrupulous that even the next year for the publicity to the accidental award to the strip club he rescinded he hit the lodge owner up again the following year for another $2,000. the lodge owner never got the award, but she did get a souvenir gavel that she gave to us at the "rachel maddow show" which is nice. what newt gingrich is exploiting is that he is a serious political figure and in order to get money from being a serious political figure, and in order to be a serious political figure, he has to flirt with becoming the most serious political figure in the land, but he c
the best monitor graphic in the history of the "rachel maddow show" it blinks. and the entrepreneur award of the year. this is a catch of paying $5,000 in order to collect it. the reason this one came to light is because one of the people he blast faxed this scam to is the very nice and friendly order of a dallas strip club called the lodge. apparently newt gingrich had not noticed in the very careful process of selecting his award-winning entrepreneurs of the year a process so...
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"the rachel maddow show" is up next with more on the crisis in japan. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, lawrence, thanks very much for that. >>> thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. we were looking today for up close footage of the kind of technology and material, the actual physical stuff that is going so wrong now in that japanese nuclear power plant we learned so much about in the last few days. one thing we found in the tape archives, fairly amazing piece of footage from anne thompson from the chief environmental affairs correspondent that aired on nbc nightly news after barack obama was elected president in 2008. check out a little piece of it. what ann is setting up here, what she's talking about, she's setting up discussion about the politics of nuclear power in the united states. but what i want you to focus on is what she is showing as she is setting it up. watch. >> this is a rare look at an assembly line of what some see as america's energy future, the components of nuclear power. tiny uranium pellets fill 12 foot
"the rachel maddow show" is up next with more on the crisis in japan. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, lawrence, thanks very much for that. >>> thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. we were looking today for up close footage of the kind of technology and material, the actual physical stuff that is going so wrong now in that japanese nuclear power plant we learned so much about in the last few days. one thing we found in the tape archives,...
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maddow show" week needs at 9:00 p.m. eastern. >>> it's likely the president will talk about the situation in libya later today. libyan foreign minister made the announcement libya is halting operations after that u.s. resolution was passed. let's go to tripoli with jim meceda. >> reporter: we are monitoring the front line, the difficulty from here of course, today is friday and we are not allowed outside the premises of our hotel here because of friday prayers. from what we gather, there has been no change militarily. the pro-gadhafi forces and there are many of them on that road, there are about 60 miles or 70 miles from the rebel capital. they still have their huge arsenal, heavy artillery, aaa guns, tanks, multiple rocket launchers. they are all pointing in one direction and that is benghazi. there has not been any pullback or retreat from a military point of view. the cease-fire, and it is a cease-fire. it doesn't necessarily mean the cessation of military operations. that is something to keep in mind. this is a very
maddow show" week needs at 9:00 p.m. eastern. >>> it's likely the president will talk about the situation in libya later today. libyan foreign minister made the announcement libya is halting operations after that u.s. resolution was passed. let's go to tripoli with jim meceda. >> reporter: we are monitoring the front line, the difficulty from here of course, today is friday and we are not allowed outside the premises of our hotel here because of friday prayers. from what we...
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rachel maddow is the most of "the rachel maddow show." good morning to you. >> good to see you. >> it's alarming to see how poorly alarmed they are, and also how disorganized these rebels are. given that, and a lot of other reasons, what are the chances the u.s. can get further deeply involved? >> the question here is whether or not, honestly, this military intervention by the west is going to make enough room in this military fight that gadhafi goes. it is unclear at this point. richard's reporting as clear as anything points out that the military capacity of the rebels doesn't seem to guarantee that. now, the u.n. mission is not to get rid of gadhafi. is not to defeat him, it's to stop him from massacring civilians. that is the grounds on which this test will be judged. but it's very hard to imagine the u.s. being in this for much longer, and getting out of a lead role. the u.s. military is so dominant compared to other mill tears in the rest of the world. it's hard for us to be a participant in anything we are not running. >> you seem
rachel maddow is the most of "the rachel maddow show." good morning to you. >> good to see you. >> it's alarming to see how poorly alarmed they are, and also how disorganized these rebels are. given that, and a lot of other reasons, what are the chances the u.s. can get further deeply involved? >> the question here is whether or not, honestly, this military intervention by the west is going to make enough room in this military fight that gadhafi goes. it is unclear...
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. >>> "the rachel maddow show" is up next. what kind of koch brothers influence do they have in wisconsin. >> thanks for joining us for the next hour. >>> when it became clear that john mccain and sarah palin were a bad choice for the republican presidential ticket in 2008, when it started to become clear that barack obama and joe biden were going to win that election and probably win pretty big, right before that election took place something kind of weird started happening in presidential politics. the tactics of what had always been the political fringe, the kind of stuff that hecklers, the fringe stuff started to be voiced by at least one of the candidates themselves. although it felt weird at the time, i don't think it was by accident. i don't think it was even unpredictable. at the time we were reporting on this turn in presidential politics. this is right before the '08 election. we said on the air on the show that what was happening should be considered a new law in american political science. >> i here by submit the l
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bush. >> that, of course, was msnbc's rachel maddow last night. you can see her show 9:00 p.m. eastern time. michael smerconish, also an msnbc contributor. you also spoke with congressman ron paul. a lot going on. i want to talk to you, first, michael, about the poll, 50% approve of president obama's handling of libya. you heard the dwlash rachel had to say on her show comparing the president to others in the past. what do you make of her numbers and the thoughts? >> i think the mixed read is similar to what i'm getting from telephone callers on my radio program today. to rachel's point about the president not canceling his trip i would say it suits the objective of the white house that he is away and that if he were at home i would thinkç i would be suspicious on their part of scheduling a quick trip to send him out of the oval office. here's why, it fits with the mantra that we are not in the lead on this. i don't know how convincing it is, but that's what they're going to great lengths to try to convince people of, that we are a team member and that we are not the captain
bush. >> that, of course, was msnbc's rachel maddow last night. you can see her show 9:00 p.m. eastern time. michael smerconish, also an msnbc contributor. you also spoke with congressman ron paul. a lot going on. i want to talk to you, first, michael, about the poll, 50% approve of president obama's handling of libya. you heard the dwlash rachel had to say on her show comparing the president to others in the past. what do you make of her numbers and the thoughts? >> i think the...
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the rachel maddow show is next. >>> we have a big update for we've got a big update for you this hour on what is going on in democratic politics, where the fight in the states is changing the whole landscape for democrats nationally, changing it in their favor. and we've got the latest on libya, where gadhafi is trying to use definitive military force to stop the uprising against him and the international community, including the united states today, moving for the first time to intervene to stop him. are you ready for yet another war in the middle east? well, we've got updates on all of that ahead in this hour. but we start with japan, where i do actually have some good news to give you. or at least some potentially good news. a way to imagine at least a controlled ending to what is already one of the worst nuclear disasters in world history. there is some good news to give you, but let me start with explaining where we are at today, which is not necessarily good. the company that owns the daiichi plant, tepco, has provided more specific information now on what exactly is the full ex
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the "the rachel maddow show" is next. >> good evening. >>> thanks for joining us this hour. nuclear fuel rods in a reactor like the ones in trouble in japan are about 12 feet long, about 12 feet long. this is 12 feet long, and they are skinny. calling them rods isn't exactly right because they're not solid, they are hollow. this is made of cardboard so i can hold it. can you see it is hollow? it is essentially a big straw. that's what they call these fuel rods. these straus themselves, the real ones, are made of metal, metal called sir cone yum. inside that is uranium. the working part of the reactor, the part that makes it nuclear. when the reactor is working, uranium pellets in the fuel rods are creating fission. they are creating a nuclear reactor to generate heat. the whole point of nuclear power is that you create an environment in which fission happens. a nuclear chain reaction happens, but it is controlled, so it does not produce an explosion. it just generates heat in a controlled way instead. use that heat to essentially boil water. actually, you literally use it to
the "the rachel maddow show" is next. >> good evening. >>> thanks for joining us this hour. nuclear fuel rods in a reactor like the ones in trouble in japan are about 12 feet long, about 12 feet long. this is 12 feet long, and they are skinny. calling them rods isn't exactly right because they're not solid, they are hollow. this is made of cardboard so i can hold it. can you see it is hollow? it is essentially a big straw. that's what they call these fuel rods. these...
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maddow and edge shots on him it's n.b.c. i know they're trying to report the news but they ought to look to see what happened to keith olbermann they have a line if they cross it i think they could be gone and i was argue contributor and investigative journalist why not them. alone and stop cut coverage of the problem that japan's fukushima nuclear plant well it's causing some panic in other parts of this country despite assurances that we face no danger or radiation are you correspondent ramona linda looks at the coverage and how the nuclear preparedness business is doing right now. she's alert japanese officials now warning of a possible meltdown one hundred seventy thousand people have been evacuated during multiple explosions this could trigger a worst case scenario be full blown meltdown meltdown meltdown i think the nuclear catastrophe in japan are being shared by people on america's west coast up and down california reports of people taking extra precautions in case a radioactive cloud is able to make it a couple thou
maddow and edge shots on him it's n.b.c. i know they're trying to report the news but they ought to look to see what happened to keith olbermann they have a line if they cross it i think they could be gone and i was argue contributor and investigative journalist why not them. alone and stop cut coverage of the problem that japan's fukushima nuclear plant well it's causing some panic in other parts of this country despite assurances that we face no danger or radiation are you correspondent...
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maddow and edge shots on m.s.n. b.c. i know they're trying to report the news but they ought to look to see what happened keith olbermann they have a line if they cross it i think they could be gone i think it's a really interesting thing because what you heard. friday saturday sunday regarding japan and now you're hearing today they're starting to have to say by the way two hundred thousand people have been evacuated this is getting dangerous but time has made that essential for them to do that what do you think we're going to see moving i think we're going to see more evacuations they can't keep the lid on this any longer we have infrared spy satellites over japan and they know the situation there at the u.s.s. ronald reagan nuclear powered aircraft carrier pulling out u.s. navy ships now going to the western side of japan to get out of the downwind area and we have and i think it's funny admiral rickover the father of the nuclear navy in one thousand nine hundred two basically stated that nuclear use of nuclear r
maddow and edge shots on m.s.n. b.c. i know they're trying to report the news but they ought to look to see what happened keith olbermann they have a line if they cross it i think they could be gone i think it's a really interesting thing because what you heard. friday saturday sunday regarding japan and now you're hearing today they're starting to have to say by the way two hundred thousand people have been evacuated this is getting dangerous but time has made that essential for them to do...
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maddow show he was saying something totally different he was asked about the rebels he said well it was just an been gazi i interviewed somebody who said he's opposing party because khadafi is jewish i mean crazy but you know any kind of nuance any kind of context seems to have to wait for longer form programming or talk show programming because the newscasts don't have time for it if the interesting to you danny that you bring that up i mean these shows are thing to have a different angle obviously nightly news tries to stay more on the balance side but when you get to later in the evening most of the shows have a definitive angle whether it's you know a riley or mad cow and i want to talk to you about one show really interesting show last night the ad shows an outspoken host well played clip last night from last night's show and then i want to get your response. we have got a willing coalition put together timing is everything the circumstances surrounding this right now present us an opportunity to do justice on a man who the president says his agency killed americans there's no
maddow show he was saying something totally different he was asked about the rebels he said well it was just an been gazi i interviewed somebody who said he's opposing party because khadafi is jewish i mean crazy but you know any kind of nuance any kind of context seems to have to wait for longer form programming or talk show programming because the newscasts don't have time for it if the interesting to you danny that you bring that up i mean these shows are thing to have a different angle...
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the u.s. in particular is now spent at least twenty million dollars to fund software and technologies to help those in the middle east circumvent internet censorship and the recent revolutions and ongoing uprisings in the middle east have shown the power of the internet as a tool for grassroots organization but also as a tool that can be shut down as we saw in egypt tunisia bahrain and yemen just to name a few but in comes the next problem as the wall street journal reported this week much of the technology that is used to block websites by foreign governments is developed and sold right here in the usa dilemma for bridging the goals of the us government with free market principles in the rights of corporations to conduct business as they please so whose responsibility is it to keep the internet open and free government business or do both hold enough power to make it so realize that perhaps there is no such thing as a free open at all to anything that is jillian york a researcher at harvard u
the u.s. in particular is now spent at least twenty million dollars to fund software and technologies to help those in the middle east circumvent internet censorship and the recent revolutions and ongoing uprisings in the middle east have shown the power of the internet as a tool for grassroots organization but also as a tool that can be shut down as we saw in egypt tunisia bahrain and yemen just to name a few but in comes the next problem as the wall street journal reported this week much of...
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maddow blog.msnbc.com. these measures include things like stepped up verifications of inspections and measurements, workplace safety rules for people who work on the rigs, a requirement to have remotely operated vehicles on hand at drill sites you about fundamental question about the blowout preventors remains. you remember the preventer that failed on the deep water horizon oil rig killing 11 oil workers. listen to what the former oil industry executive told us on this show about that last night. >> there's no fundamental change to the way we drill the deep water, rachel. we're doing it with the same equipment, the same blowout preventors on all the deep water rigs in the gulf that failed on that well. >> you're saying that oil rigs operating in the gulf right now and anybody getting new permits to operate in the gulf right now, they're using that same piece of equipment? >> they're using that exact same piece of equipment. >> the same exact piece of equipment. as we reported last night these new regulatio
maddow blog.msnbc.com. these measures include things like stepped up verifications of inspections and measurements, workplace safety rules for people who work on the rigs, a requirement to have remotely operated vehicles on hand at drill sites you about fundamental question about the blowout preventors remains. you remember the preventer that failed on the deep water horizon oil rig killing 11 oil workers. listen to what the former oil industry executive told us on this show about that last...
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but this list turned out to also be good news for those of us here at "the rachel maddow show" because coming in at number 7 this year was susie jones, kent jones's mom. number 7 on the billionaires list this year. she's a retired kindergarten teacher from missouri. way to go, susie. also number 9, she's apparently very secretive now, so no photo, but it's my third grade public school teacher, mrs. marchant. she taught me third great at chabot elementary in caster valley, california cal. of course she's been making off like a bandit ever since. ninth richest person in the world we're estimating her fortune at $27 billion. these public school teachers you've got to admire their wealth, but man, they are sucking us dry. in politics if you are pursuing policies that mostly just redirect wealth and resources from the rest of the country to people who already have a lot or policies that make things harder for people who have to work for a living, policies that transfer resources from public assets we all own and enjoy to something that only privately benefits a small number of people who fr
but this list turned out to also be good news for those of us here at "the rachel maddow show" because coming in at number 7 this year was susie jones, kent jones's mom. number 7 on the billionaires list this year. she's a retired kindergarten teacher from missouri. way to go, susie. also number 9, she's apparently very secretive now, so no photo, but it's my third grade public school teacher, mrs. marchant. she taught me third great at chabot elementary in caster valley, california...
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"the rachel maddow show" is up next. sitting in tonight, chris haze. good evening. >> good evening. thank you for staying with us the next hour. rachel has the night off. >>> the nuclear crisis in japan is still volatile tonight. there have been numerous developments today. we'll get to those shortly. we begin with something you should never have to ask, something that should never be a question. are we at war? yes, we are at war in iraq and afghanistan, and maybe sort of in pakistan as well. but are we at war again in another middle eastern country? it is not a provocative rhetorical question, it is one so-called no fly zone over libya and to take all necessary measures to protect civilians under attack. faced with threat from moammar gadhafi of a massacre of his own civilians, united nations approved military action against libya, which is a big fricking deal. for us, for the united nations, for the region. yet what made last night so eery and strange was that this big, historical moment, this commitment by a number of nations to use force, fell into the american political convers
"the rachel maddow show" is up next. sitting in tonight, chris haze. good evening. >> good evening. thank you for staying with us the next hour. rachel has the night off. >>> the nuclear crisis in japan is still volatile tonight. there have been numerous developments today. we'll get to those shortly. we begin with something you should never have to ask, something that should never be a question. are we at war? yes, we are at war in iraq and afghanistan, and maybe sort...
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the rachel maddow show is up next with a closer look at what kind of influence the coke brothers really have in wisconsin. good evening. >> thank you very much for that and thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. when it became clear that and sarah palin were a bad choice for the republican presidential ticket in 2008, it's starting to become clear that barack obama and joe biden were going to win the election and probably win big, right before that election took place, something kind of weird started happening in presidential politics. the tactic of the political fringe and the kind of stuff hecklers scream, that stuff started getting voiced by at least one of the candidates themselves. it felt weird at the time, i don't think it was by accident. i don't think it was unpredictable. at the time we were reporting on this turn in presidential politics before the '08 election, we said on this show what was happening should be considered a new law in american political science. i here by submit that the longer it's clear that liberals or democrats win an election or lib
the rachel maddow show is up next with a closer look at what kind of influence the coke brothers really have in wisconsin. good evening. >> thank you very much for that and thanks to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. when it became clear that and sarah palin were a bad choice for the republican presidential ticket in 2008, it's starting to become clear that barack obama and joe biden were going to win the election and probably win big, right before that election took...
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"the rachel maddow show" is up next. good evening, rachel. >> lawrence, i am so turning you in for saying you're going to skip lockup. >> don't. it is my secret. that's my secret. >> i will see if i can get you excused. thank you, lawrence. and thank you at home for staying with us the next hour. if you were king for the day, if you got to make the decisions in this country and wanted to bring down the deficit, would you raise taxes on people making more than a million dollars a year? would you let the bush tax cuts expire for the richest people in the country? would you get rid of the subsidies, tax breaks for oil and gas companies? would you do all those things? really, are you that liberal that you would do all those things? if you are that liberal that you would do all of those things, then you are an average american. the support for these policies, look at this. the support for these policies is the support you get for the contention that puppies are cute. 81% of the country supports raising taxes on millionaires t
"the rachel maddow show" is up next. good evening, rachel. >> lawrence, i am so turning you in for saying you're going to skip lockup. >> don't. it is my secret. that's my secret. >> i will see if i can get you excused. thank you, lawrence. and thank you at home for staying with us the next hour. if you were king for the day, if you got to make the decisions in this country and wanted to bring down the deficit, would you raise taxes on people making more than a...